Alcock V Alcock, 1994
Tony Alcock
Collage
Original Item, 85 x 106.5 x 10 cm
Unique Edition, 1 of 1
AMA Artworks
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About Tony Alcock
I was born in Nottingham (UK) in June 1947. My post school art education included a Pre-Dip at Loughborough followed by studying Fine Art / Painting at Leicester Polytechnic. After graduating and producing my 'Light Organ', I enjoyed a couple of years being recognized as an original and practicing artist in the UK. However, I chose to pursue life as a teacher, gaining a PGCE from Bristol University, where I later briefly lectured in Art education.
Circumstances changed and I found myself working as a musician, became a music shop owner and eventually worked in a successful graphics based company, MOGO UK. From 1993, I was able to reactivate my artistic ambitions, identifying myself as AMA, I've always liked the symmetry of my initials. Most all the work on this Artlimes website will have been produced after 1993.
I hope you enjoy and get into the work you see, it can then speak for itself.
By the way, whatever you think about the art, I'm very good at wrapping up, packaging and dispatching the finished article!About the Product
£10,000
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'Art as therapy'. When exhibited at Galerie 'O' in Bayeux in 1995, this was how this very personal piece of work was described by a fellow art gallery owner, who looked disconcertingly like Woody Allen.
Before this realisation, I had been undergoing a major catharsis. The divorce process from my first wife, Suzanna, whom I had married in 1985, took two years, two months from beginning to end. As well as causing large financial and emotional damage, this unnecessarily prolonged legal action produced reams of paper costing a total of £6,200. By the end of March 1994, I was in possession of considerably less material wealth than I was before, but I did have an unwanted wedding ring and a lot of unwanted used paper.
It seems there are three options open to the recently divorced concerning the documentation produced : (i) Burn it, (ii) Store it away in the attic, or (iii) Make use of it. I chose to act.
Working in the print department of Loughborough College of Art, all but a few documents were pulped and, from this morass and a solid hand made paper slab was produced. Contained within it is all the vituperation of the preceding legal process. All the recorded conflict, now disassembled was reduced to a raw material from which something new could be built. Only the title of the process, cut from a remaining document and inlaid into the slab indicates the original substance of this single page.
The wedding ring, a golden circle indicating the notion of 'zero' could be disposed of. . . and it was.
This descriptive account was written in May 2004, ten years after the Divorce Absolute.